The study presents a landscape design project with a set of preliminary morphological analyses. Karaalioglu Park, in South Anatolia, is squeezed between a dense urban fabric and the irrevocably transformed edge of Mediterranean Sea. Globalisation, rapid urbanisation as much as other sociocultural imperatives and natural processes paved the foundations for dilapidation of the park. The project c...

Kentsel yeşil alanlar, refahın önemli bir unsuru olarak kente estetik görünüm kazandıran, betonlaşmış kent dokusunu yumuşatan, havasını temizleyen ve bireylerin serbest zamanlarını değerlendirebilecekleri alanlardır. Bu nedenle çalışma alanını Van kentinin en geniş alanına, göle olan manzara konumuna merkezi konuma sahip parklarından birisi 15 Temmuz Şehitler Parkı alanı seçilmiştir. Çalışma ka...

The central concern for geodiversity conservation is the low perception of its importance and appreciation by society, as individual rarely values ​​what he does not know. Thus, communication essential to promote a better comprehension public and, consequently, geodiversity. Geosites are exceptional places Geosciences because they allow engagement through enchantment provided, example, story th...

In this article, we showcase the Beijing Olympic Forest Park (BOFP), a large-scale urban park developed as part of green infrastructure to support 2008 Games in Beijing, China. The BOFP represents an example using strategically-placed and well-designed public open spaces relieve stresses from high-density living compact areas. Drawing first-hand information leading planners designers, present i...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Effective and acceptable preventive dental services are hard to achieve in conjunction with treatment services. The Oral Health Office of Fars Province in Iran established the Oral Health Park in a deprived part of the city of Shiraz to attract families and school children to receive preventive services. No other treatment was provided in the setting. The aim of this study w...

Urban green spaces provide a context where constant association with these spaces can result in reducing the incidence or diminishing the effect of many diseases. Different studies assessed the relationship between using urban green spaces and health benefits considering influential quantitative aspects. This research tries to look differently at this issue by connecting the urban green spaces ...

The carabid genus Orthogonius MacLeay is treated, based mainly on materials collected in Thailand through the TIGER project (the Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research). Among 290 specimens, 20 species are identified in total, 10 of them are new species: Orthogonius taghavianaesp. n. (Nakhon Nayok: Khao Yai National Park), Orthogonius coomanioidessp. n. (Phetchabun: Thung Salaeng L...

city parks play an important role in the welfare of metropolitan people. higher species richness of birds can be considered as a reflection of the health of the park and may satisfy visitors to a higher extent being in a more natural environment. we studied the influence of area and shape of city parks on bird species richness and diversity. 13 parks from among the 35 main city parks in isfahan...

The generation of ecosystem services depends on both social and ecological features. Here we focus on management, its ecological consequences, and social drivers. Our approach combined (1) quantitative surveys of local species diversity and abundance of three functional groups of ecosystem service providers (pollinators, seed dispersers, and insectivores) with (2) qualitative studies of local m...